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OCI Foundations
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate training teaches core OCI concepts, architecture, IAM, compute, storage, and networking, enabling learners to design, deploy, and manage basic cloud solutions confidently.
90
Minutes
55
Questions
68
Passing Score
Who Should Take This
It is ideal for IT professionals, developers, or system administrators who have up to six months of OCI exposure and a basic understanding of cloud computing. These learners aim to validate their foundational OCI knowledge, enhance their credentials, and prepare for roles that involve cloud infrastructure design and operations.
What's Covered
1
Cloud Concepts and OCI Architecture
2
Identity and Access Management
3
Core Services: Compute
4
Core Services: Storage
5
Core Services: Networking
6
Core Services: Database
7
Governance, Pricing, and Observability
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Lesson Modules
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Course Outline
60 learning goals
1
Cloud Concepts and OCI Architecture
3 topics
Cloud Computing Fundamentals
- Identify the key characteristics of cloud computing including on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service.
- Differentiate between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud service models and map representative OCI services to each category.
- Compare public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud deployment models and explain when each is appropriate for enterprise workloads.
- Describe the benefits of cloud adoption including agility, global reach, economies of scale, and shifting from capital to operational expenditure.
OCI Global Infrastructure
- Describe the OCI physical infrastructure hierarchy of regions, availability domains, and fault domains and how they deliver high availability.
- Explain the purpose of OCI realm, tenancy, and compartment constructs for organizing and isolating cloud resources.
- Apply region selection criteria including data residency, latency, service availability, and disaster recovery considerations.
- Analyze how availability domain and fault domain placement decisions affect workload resilience and data locality compliance.
OCI Console and Access
- Describe the OCI Console interface including dashboard, resource navigation, search functionality, and region selector.
- Explain methods for accessing OCI resources including Console, CLI, SDKs, REST APIs, and Cloud Shell for different operational workflows.
2
Identity and Access Management
2 topics
IAM Core Components
- Identify core IAM components including users, groups, dynamic groups, policies, and compartments for controlling OCI resource access.
- Explain OCI IAM policy syntax including subjects, verbs (inspect, read, use, manage), resource types, and conditions.
- Apply the principle of least privilege by constructing IAM policies that grant only minimum permissions for a given scenario.
- Explain OCI Identity Domains including federation with SAML and OIDC providers, user provisioning, and MFA configuration.
- Analyze an access control scenario to determine the correct IAM policy statements and compartment hierarchy for a multi-team organization.
Security Services
- Identify OCI security services including Vault, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Bastion, WAF, and Certificates and their primary use cases.
- Explain how OCI Vault manages encryption keys and secrets and distinguish between software-protected and HSM-protected master keys.
- Describe Cloud Guard detector and responder recipes for automated security monitoring and threat remediation.
- Explain Security Zones and their enforced security policies that prevent misconfiguration of resources in sensitive compartments.
- Analyze a security scenario to select the correct combination of OCI security services for data protection and threat mitigation.
3
Core Services: Compute
2 topics
Compute Instances
- Identify OCI compute options including VM shapes, bare metal shapes, dedicated hosts, flexible shapes, and GPU shapes.
- Explain instance configuration including custom images, boot volumes, cloud-init metadata, and instance configurations for templates.
- Configure autoscaling policies with metric-based and schedule-based rules for dynamically adjusting compute capacity.
- Compare flexible shapes, burstable instances, and preemptible capacity to select cost-effective compute for variable workloads.
Containers and Serverless
- Describe Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE), Container Instances, and Container Registry for running containerized workloads.
- Explain OCI Functions for event-driven serverless compute with automatic scaling, per-invocation billing, and Events integration.
- Determine whether VMs, OKE containers, Container Instances, or Functions best suit a workload based on scaling and operational needs.
4
Core Services: Storage
2 topics
Block and File Storage
- Identify Block Volume performance tiers (balanced, higher performance, ultra-high performance) and their IOPS and throughput characteristics.
- Explain Block Volume features including volume groups, backup policies, cross-region replication, and boot volume management.
- Configure File Storage with mount targets, export paths, snapshot schedules, and NFS access controls for shared workloads.
Object and Archive Storage
- Describe Object Storage tiers (Standard, Infrequent Access, Archive) and their durability, availability, and retrieval characteristics.
- Implement Object Storage configurations including versioning, lifecycle policies, retention rules, and pre-authenticated requests.
- Explain multipart uploads, server-side encryption, and Object Storage events for automating data processing workflows.
- Analyze storage requirements to select the appropriate OCI storage service based on performance, durability, access patterns, and cost.
5
Core Services: Networking
2 topics
Virtual Cloud Network
- Describe VCN components including subnets, route tables, internet gateways, NAT gateways, service gateways, and DRG.
- Explain security list rules and network security group rules for controlling inbound and outbound traffic at subnet and VNIC levels.
- Configure a VCN with public and private subnets, gateways, and security rules for internet-facing and backend workloads.
- Explain local and remote VCN peering, FastConnect, and site-to-site VPN for hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity.
Load Balancing and DNS
- Identify flexible load balancer and network load balancer types and describe listener, backend set, and health check concepts.
- Configure load balancer routing policies, SSL termination, and session persistence for multi-tier application traffic distribution.
- Explain OCI DNS including public and private zones, traffic steering policies, and health check integration.
- Evaluate load balancing and DNS designs to determine the optimal configuration for a high-availability multi-tier application.
6
Core Services: Database
2 topics
Database Services
- Identify OCI database services: Autonomous Database, VM and Bare Metal DB Systems, Exadata, MySQL HeatWave, NoSQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Explain Autonomous Database workload types (OLTP, DW, JSON, APEX) and self-managing features including auto-scaling and auto-patching.
- Describe MySQL HeatWave in-memory query acceleration, ML integration, and lakehouse features for real-time analytics.
- Explain database backup options including automatic backups, on-demand backups, and retention policies for data protection.
Database HA and Migration
- Describe Data Guard and Active Data Guard for database high availability and disaster recovery across availability domains.
- Explain database migration options using Database Migration Service, GoldenGate, and Data Pump for on-premises to OCI migration.
- Compare OCI database services to recommend the best option based on workload type, performance, management overhead, and licensing.
7
Governance, Pricing, and Observability
4 topics
Governance and Tagging
- Describe OCI governance features including defined tags, tag namespaces, freeform tags, and compartment quotas.
- Explain how tag-based cost tracking and compartment quotas enforce organizational governance and spending controls.
Pricing and Billing
- Identify OCI pricing models including pay-as-you-go, annual Universal Credits, monthly flex, BYOL, and Always Free resources.
- Explain Cost Analysis, Budgets, and Usage Reports for monitoring and managing cloud spending across compartments.
- Analyze a cost optimization scenario to recommend pricing commitments, rightsizing, and storage lifecycle policies.
Observability
- Identify OCI observability services: Monitoring, Logging, Logging Analytics, APM, Notifications, and Events.
- Configure monitoring alarms with metric queries, thresholds, and notification topics for performance and availability alerting.
- Explain Audit service for API call tracking and Events service for automated workflow triggering on resource state changes.
- Analyze operational requirements to select observability tools and alarm configurations meeting SLA requirements.
SLA and Support
- Identify OCI SLA commitments for compute, storage, networking, and database service availability guarantees.
- Explain Oracle Support tiers and service request severity levels for obtaining technical assistance.
Scope
Included Topics
- All domains in the OCI Foundations Associate (1Z0-1085) exam: Cloud Concepts, OCI Architecture, Core Services, Security, Governance, Pricing.
- Foundational knowledge of regions, availability domains, fault domains, compartments, IAM, VCN, compute shapes, storage types, database services, and OCI console.
- Key services: Compute, Block Volume, Object Storage, File Storage, VCN, Load Balancer, Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave, Functions, OKE, Vault, Cloud Guard, Monitoring, Budgets.
- Basic cloud economics, Oracle Universal Credits, pay-as-you-go pricing, free tier, and SLA commitments.
Not Covered
- Professional-level architecture, advanced networking, and multi-cloud integration beyond foundational awareness.
- CLI/SDK scripting, Terraform automation, and DevOps pipeline configuration.
- Deep database administration, PL/SQL programming, and application development on OCI.
- Third-party integrations and region-specific compliance details.
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